Flamingos

So hot right now… Flamingos are not only ‘on trend’ at the moment (along with watermelons, pandas and pineapples apparently) – this trio of film talents seem to have come up with my ideal job! Creating wonderfully sumptuous films of luxury hotels and exotic travel locations. I would say a pleasure to design Flamingo Pictures…

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Gaining composers…

Christopher Slaski is a composer of great versatility and ever growing credits. Dividing his time and composition talents between film scores, short films and adverts, he is globally renowned – just having been voted ‘Best Young European Film Composer’ by the Australian Film Academy. Skim merrily worked up a new logo for Christopher – designed…

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It will all become clear…

Crystal Clear that is…! Always a pleasure to assist this hard-working Cornwall based couple, who Skim have worked with over the past few years. Their dedication, effort and ambition have grown this Cornwall Window Cleaning Company from a small business to a successful force and fleet to be reckoned with! Skim photographed the team in…

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String quartet spring clean

String Quartet Spring Clean This group of talented ladies have been rocking some serious venues with their wide repertoire and can boast working on Downton Abbey, Harry Potter and the X Factor… Skim has less ‘name-dropperable’ clients to date – but all our clients are worthy of 100% design love. The Marten String Quartet already…

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Mother the Air is Blue

Tim Shaw spotted a business card we had designed for another company and tracked us down, simple to design a card for his new show What Remains. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising – it’s how our multi-media business continues and results with us working on such a wide variety of jobs.…

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Time to Improvise

Great to get our hands on both branding ID and new website design work for this interesting and forward thinking business. Developing a new logo for Improv Initiative was a fun task to undertake and develop alongside the new website design. I believe every business and its employees would benefit from this positive injection, check…

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Butt website build

‘To work one’s butt off‘ – slang expression – to work very hard or to excess. Skim did put in some serious hours of design time, content adding and love of course to Ed’s website design and build, but I think it is Ed himself who seems to work his ‘Butt’ off. A prolific and…

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Are you consciously living?

Wow – A fairly deep question for this time of day I know. But after working with the charismatic Clara Apollo, you kind of want to find out more and be involved with her Conscious Living Events. Skim are working with Clara on re-branding, website design update and future involvement with her various other projects!

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Splashing through January

Thankfully we have all splashed through January! At Skim it whizzed past in a wet blur – meeting new clients, potential collaborations, plus existing clients coming out from hibernation! We did manage to make 4 websites live though, so not too shabby… Now January is done we can all move on to happy, healthy and…

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Historic Books

Festive Fillers for Footie Fans

Need to find a Football fan a gift fast?.. Look no further.. Skim merrily whipped up this Historic Football Books website with all the added extras!. Personalised presents show you care, you just have to know which team they support…

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Sawmill Action Movie!

Skim have updated the Jo Sawmills film and website! Great company, fab day out filming. Support local businesses and source your timber responsibly! Also if you have a spare 1.15 minutes and need to watch an amusing classic about the joys of wood >> The Ren and Stimpy Show.

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A bit of you time…

Whilst meeting with Amanda from Woodland Aromatherapy you start feeling calmer and in a more relaxed state of mind. Fortunately we hyped ourselves back into action and built this lovely lady an efficient, easy to use website which she can update & maintain – breathe in.. and breathe out…now check out the website and book…

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A Walm Walney Welcome

What a pleasure it was last week photographing & filming the interior and surrounding area at Walney House –  a fantastic location with a stunning ever changing vista to inspire and enjoy whatever the weather! We hope the newly updated website truly reflects the look and feel.

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Who are CASS + ?

We have just re-designed the CASS+ website. You may have not heard about what CASS+ do yet but you really should. Hopefully you will never require their services. However for those who do, the experience, guidance and support of this  charity is life changing. Dave and I had the privilege to meet the CASS+ team,…

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To-tality Awesome!

Revving up and ready for action after our Skim west coast USA road trip – what a beautiful huge country it is with inspirational landscapes and amazingly friendly people, (who mostly thought we were Australian!). Our focal point was the Solar eclipse, location >> Madras, Oregon – A cosmic, humbling experience, We are now full…

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Pianist Parham presents…

Lucy Parham has an extensive biography and impressive list of celebrity collaborators! A pleasure to work with this talented lady and provide her with a new platform to showcase her amazing repertoire…

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Time to Mull

What a chore having to hack towards the end of Cornwall to visit the Old Inn at Mullion – NOT ! It’s such a glorious Cornish coastline, which I’d never been to, so after several sweaty hours of photography I felt justified strolling down to Mullion Cove, devouring an ice-cream and absorbing the view. You…

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Aesthetics and Arithmetic

Angela’s work is all about Maths and Tax – as she is a highly efficient accountant and bookkeeper! Raising her levels of experience deserved a reward, the grand design and aesthically pleasing new work space. Skim aimed to enhance this new impressive level, photographing the new building, adorable Milly & Myrtle (canine companions) and the…

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Feeling Pumped!

Chronically Motivated partners Zoey and Conor stayed local for their coastal lifestyle photoshoot, we then graded those photos, and matched product shots we took at Skim to fit with the website design! Great to work with this focused fit and positive minded duo – check out their initial range of quality active wear for men…

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Treworgey Manor 2017

New owners, new photography and new website! New Owners Debbie and James have worked hard to refresh and improved the four Treworgey Manor holiday cottages. I can highly recommend this time of year to escape to Cornwall, it is glorious. Please take a look at the photographs and let us know what you think.  

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Celebrating 3000

No we are not being all futuristic, or talking about how many employees Facebook has recently hired.. Skim has Just recorded job number 3000 ! So we thought it would be a good time to thank past and present clients and friends for allowing us to design stuff for them for so long, we are…

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Walney’s view of the world

What a fantastic time of year May it is to be in Cornwall, especially if you are fortunate enough to stay at Walney Cottage in Kingsand, – your view out to sea could be like this.. Tranquil and calm on the day I visited and took new photos for the website, but every day promises…

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Chronically Motivated

Really excited about working with a young, hard working, ambitious duo, – the founders of Chronically Motivated. Zoey and Conor have been building interest in their nutrition & training advice and are now moving into designing and selling fitness apparel. Skim are giving this Cornwall based couple 100% effort and support, – designing, building and…

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Prolific Composer on a roll

The ever ready battery that is Lorne Balfe continues to expand his repertoire of film scores, –  this year alone composing music for: Batman Lego Movie, Ghost in the Shell, Churchill and the epic Geostorm set for release later in the year. We are kept busy updating the Fragmented website with all Lorne news (but…

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Life Affirming

Stay at Walney Cottage in Kingsand and take in glorious views of the sea, or for those wanting a more exciting experience – get your swimsuit on (whatever time of year! ) and stride into the sea. Promoted as ‘life affirming’ by owner Kate and all who swim with her, wild swimming is the way…

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Pro-active Publishers published

Multi award winning music publishers kindly requested Skim (again) to re-design and re-skin their existing website. Rebranded and refreshed the new Du Vinage website returns ready for action.

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Wild new website

We have just launched Alex Harwood’s new website. In 2014 Skim created a fairly low-key website for Alex. Since then this prolific, talented composer has been notching up numerous new credits for TV, film and animation – Listen to tracks from her most recent programme: ‘Growing up Wild’ shown on Disney Nature and now Netflix.

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Rate and review

Hello gorgeous (generous with your time) Skim clients – hope you are all happy, healthy and full of the joys of spring? Can you tell from my tone that I want something from you? If we have ever done some design, print, website or photography work from you and you have the time and inclination…

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